El gobierno de Filipinas acusó el sábado a las fuerzas aéreas de China de lanzar bengalas contra una de sus aeronaves que realizaba una misión de patrullaje en el disputado mar de China Meridional.
A Chinese fighter jet "engaged in irresponsible and dangerous manoeuvres" on August 19 as the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) plane made a "maritime domain awareness flight" near Scarborough Shoal, the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea said.
The unprovoked Chinese "harassment" included "deploying flares multiple times at a dangerously close distance of approximately 15 metres from the BFAR Grand Caravan aircraft", the task force added in a statement.
Flares were also launched near the same plane from the China-held Subi Reef on August 22 as the patrol craft was "monitoring and intercepting poachers encroaching upon the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone and the territorial seas" of the Philippines, it added.
A Chinese fighter jet "engaged in irresponsible and dangerous manoeuvres" on August 19 as the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) plane made a "maritime domain awareness flight" near Scarborough Shoal, the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea said.
The unprovoked Chinese "harassment" included "deploying flares multiple times at a dangerously close distance of approximately 15 metres from the BFAR Grand Caravan aircraft", the task force added in a statement.
Flares were also launched near the same plane from the China-held Subi Reef on August 22 as the patrol craft was "monitoring and intercepting poachers encroaching upon the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone and the territorial seas" of the Philippines, it added.
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00:00Filipinas acusó el sábado a las Fuerzas Aéreas de China de lanzar bengalas contra
00:05una de sus aeronaves a una distancia peligrosamente cercana de aproximadamente 15 metros.
00:11El avión filipino realizaba una misión de patrullaje en el disputado mar de China Meridional
00:14el pasado 19 de agosto. El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores chino dijo el viernes que había
00:19llevado a cabo medidas de respuesta contra dos aviones militares filipinos que penetraron
00:23su espacio aéreo en el arrecife de Subi el 22 de agosto, pero no mencionó ningún incidente
00:27previo.
00:28Pekín reclama casi la totalidad de este mar, escenario en los últimos meses de distintos
00:32incidentes entre barcos chinos y filipinos que hacen temer un conflicto armado que podría
00:36arrastrar a Estados Unidos, aliado militar clave de Manila.